The Insightful Leader
Expert advice and cutting-edge discoveries from one of the world’s leading business schools.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
How to Stay Resilient in the Face of a Major Setback
When Kellogg’s Craig Wortmann lost a portion of his leg to cancer, he felt like he lost part of his identity, too. On this episode of The Insightful Leader podcast, he offers a guide to “bouncing bac…
Insight Unpacked S2E6 | When a Healthcare Expert Becomes a Patient
In this bonus episode of our series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” a healthcare economist must make critical decisions with partial information.
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Preventing a Potential Culture Clash at Work
On this episode of The Insightful Leader: when Fuyao Glass opened a U.S. factory, it underestimated the importance of translating company culture.
Workers Are Stressed Out. Here’s How Leaders Can Help.
On this (rerun) episode of The Insightful Leader: You can't always control what happens at work. But reframing setbacks, and instituting some serious calendar discipline, can go a long way toward red…
What Rom-coms Can Teach Business Leaders
On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we’ll discuss how these movies can help us navigate conflict and tackle power dynamics.
How Should You Present Yourself at Work?
Be yourself! No, not like that. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we help you navigate the competing advice about how much to share and hold back. This episode originally aired in January of …
Avoiding the Likability Trap at Work
Plus: insecure employees and a flagging culture. On this episode of The Insightful Leader's "Ask Insight," a conversation with Professor Harry Kraemer. This is a (favorite!) rerun. We'll have a coupl…
You Have an Idea for a New AI Tool. Now What?
On this episode of The Insightful Leader: two researchers offer tips on how to get AI development right.
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on Her Climb to the Top
On this episode of The Insightful Leader, Kellogg’s Ellen Taaffe interviews her mentor about success, self-belief, and supporting the next generation of leaders.
How to Get Delegation Right, Part 3 of 3
On this episode of The Insightful Leader’s “Ask Insight,” we finish our conversation by getting real about the emotional stakes that make delegating hard.
How to Get Delegation Right, Part 2 of 3
On this episode of The Insightful Leader’s “Ask Insight,” our conversation continues with a discussion of which tasks and functions to delegate—and which to keep.
How to Get Delegation Right, Part 1 of 3
It’s a tricky skill to master. On this episode of The Insightful Leader’s “Ask Insight,” a Kellogg professor and executive coach says it begins with assessing your team members and playing to their s…
The AI Risks Your Business Should Avoid
On this episode of The Insightful Leader, why your trade secrets may not be safe, and other considerations.
How Huy Fong’s Sriracha Went from Hot to Not
When missteps knocked the famous “rooster sauce” off its pedestal, a competitor seized the moment. On this episode of The Insightful Leader: Why one brand sizzled and the other fizzled.
How to Grow as a Leader Without Burning Yourself Out
In this episode of The Insightful Leader, a former president at Kraft Foods explains why “sometimes just working harder is a complete waste of time.”
Third-Party Cookies Are Crumbling. What’s a Marketer to Do?
New rules are making it harder to track customers’ online behaviors. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we look at what this means for companies large and small.
Insight Unpacked S2E5 | American Healthcare—Is This the Best We Can Do?
In the final episode of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we travel overseas, and through our own backyard, in search of a way forwar…
Insight Unpacked S2E4 | The Bargain That Fuels Big Pharma
What will we pay for the next groundbreaking drug? In episode 4 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explore the trade-off at the …
Insight Unpacked S2E3 | The Misadventures of Insuring America
In episode 3 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explain how insurance companies became everybody’s favorite villain.
On this epi…
Insight Unpacked S2E2 | The Power of the Physician's Pen
We rely on doctors to keep us healthy. In episode 2 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we learn at what cost.
On this episode, we t…